SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) — Most commonly-used methods to determine when to start prostate cancer treatment for men on watchful waiting have a high “false trigger” rate, researchers asserted.
Posted on March 9, 2010 | Filed under Urology News | Permalink
SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) — Expensive prostate cancer treatments are winning out over the old standards, driving up the cost of treatment before there’s clear evidence that they improve outcomes, researchers here asserted.
Posted on March 8, 2010 | Filed under Urology News | Permalink
SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) — Thorough lymph node dissection improves survival in high-risk penile cancer but is vastly underused, researchers said here.
Posted on March 8, 2010 | Filed under Urology News | Permalink
SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) — Reactions to the American Cancer Society’s guideline update calling for shared decision making in prostate cancer screening have been mixed among urologists here at the Genitourinary Cancers Symposium, as a leading oncologist explains in this exclusive InFocus™ report.
Posted on March 8, 2010 | Filed under Urology News | Permalink
SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) — A quiet switch in laboratory standards has artificially lowered prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels reported to physicians, confusing thresholds for biopsy and potentially leading to missed cancers.
Posted on March 7, 2010 | Filed under Urology News | Permalink
SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) — For men with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), dutasteride (Avodart) both prevents prostate cancer and boosts the predictive power of prostate specific antigen (PSA), researchers affirmed.
Posted on March 7, 2010 | Filed under Urology News | Permalink
SAN FRANCISCO Another novel urine test appears to improve detection of prostate cancer, particularly of aggressive tumors, researchers reported.
Posted on March 6, 2010 | Filed under Urology News | Permalink
SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) — A novel retrovirus implicated in prostate cancer appears to be transmitted much the way HIV is, researchers found.
Posted on March 6, 2010 | Filed under Urology News | Permalink
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — A day after the American Cancer Society (ACS) released updated prostate cancer screening guidelines, the group’s chief medical officer was before Congress urging the government to fund research into alternative methods for prostate cancer screening.
Posted on March 6, 2010 | Filed under Urology News | Permalink
SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) — Adding urine tests to standard cytoscopy for surveillance after non-muscle invasive bladder cancer may increase cost without boosting detection, according to a prospective cost-effectiveness study.
Posted on March 4, 2010 | Filed under Urology News | Permalink
SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) — An experimental urine test may pick up prostate cancers before biopsy in high-risk men, researchers found.
Posted on March 4, 2010 | Filed under Urology News | Permalink
SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) — The novel chemotherapy drug cabazitaxel substantially improves survival in hormone- and chemotherapy-refractory prostate cancer, making it the first treatment of any kind to do so.
Posted on March 3, 2010 | Filed under Urology News | Permalink
Principles of shared decision-making should guide a man’s decision about screening for prostate cancer, according to updated guidelines from the American Cancer Society.
Posted on March 3, 2010 | Filed under Urology News | Permalink
Laparoscopic and open prostatectomy have similar rates of comorbidity and similar requirements for additional therapy, according to a review of 5,923 cases of surgically treated prostate cancer.
Posted on February 24, 2010 | Filed under Urology News | Permalink
Male cancer survivors with low testosterone levels experience reduced energy and sexual function, and thus might benefit from hormone replacement therapy, a new study found.
Posted on February 22, 2010 | Filed under Urology News | Permalink
SAN ANTONIO (MedPage Today) — A humanized monoclonal antibody against nerve growth factor demonstrated efficacy in three chronic pain syndromes, according to a summary of small studies reported as an abstract here.
Posted on February 5, 2010 | Filed under Urology News | Permalink
Men have a slightly, but statistically significant, increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease in the year after learning they have prostate cancer, researchers found.
Posted on February 2, 2010 | Filed under Urology News | Permalink
Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer can exacerbate cardiac risk factors and may increase the risk of heart attack and cardiac death, according to an advisory issued by four medical organizations.
Posted on February 2, 2010 | Filed under Urology News | Permalink
Sexual function declines in the first two years after external beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer but stabilizes thereafter, according to data from a prospective cohort study.
Posted on January 29, 2010 | Filed under Urology News | Permalink
Treatment that men receive for prostate cancer may depend less on their condition and more on where they are treated, a new study found.
Posted on January 26, 2010 | Filed under Urology News | Permalink
In patients who have neurologic symptoms indicative of cancer, whole-body positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) may improve the detection rates when other screening test results are negative, researchers say.
Posted on January 12, 2010 | Filed under Urology News | Permalink
Men with restless leg syndrome had a significantly increased risk of erectile dysfunction compared with men who did not have the neurologic disorder, data from a large cohort study showed.
Posted on January 1, 2010 | Filed under Urology News | Permalink
First-line use of carbapenem antibiotics for urinary tract infections may become necessary if the spread of E. coli superbugs continues, a prominent infectious disease expert warned.
Posted on December 28, 2009 | Filed under Urology News | Permalink
Exposure to aristolochic acid, found in some Chinese herbal products such as Mu Tong and Fangchi, significantly increased the risk for urinary tract cancer, according to a retrospective study.
Posted on December 22, 2009 | Filed under Urology News | Permalink
Pelvic prolapse that escapes detection by conventional MRI might come into focus with dynamic MRI, findings from a study of urethral imaging indicated.
Posted on December 13, 2009 | Filed under Urology News | Permalink
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